The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-02-24
SENATE.

WASHINGTON. Feb 1S-The senate took
up the river and harbor appropriation BILL
The bill reported by the committee on com
MERGE as a substitute Tor the bill passed by
the house was read, and various amend
ments were offered by the chairman or the
committee, Mr.. Mcmillan, and adopted
These were generally an increase of amounts
of various items On motion OF several
senator's other items were increased MI.
Edmunds moved To strike out OF section 5,
| which provides for the requirement by con-
demnation Of lands or material necessary IN
the pro ecution Of works of improvement,
the proviso authorizing the secretary OF war,
when the price asked by the owner shall be
out further delay. Defeated-Yeas II, nays
81 The section and proviso We're both
| modified by striking out the words "or ma
terlal."
The senate to-day adopted the conference
report on the anti-polvgamy bill by only
thirteen dissenting votes Mr.. Hoar, the
only Republican who voted IN the negative,
did so because the bill abolishes woman suf-
frage in Utah. The Democrats who voted
against the bill opposed The measure on con-
sG.tutionai grounds Aside from the general
argument that the law is oppressive and in
| frlnges the rights Of the citizens, the specific
| charge is made that the provision relative TO
| the Mormon En- grafton company is a prac-
| tical conrscatlon OF private property liz vio-
latlon of the constitution IN that the assets
| OF this corporation are devoted To school
purposes and the corporation is practically
| escheated to the state. To this the sup
| porters of the bill reply that provision Is
made for the return to the stockholders
| Of the entire amount or their invest
ment and that it is the remainder only
which is devoted to school purposes.
TRANSACTED IN THE HOUSE.
The senate amendments to the invalid PEN
| sion appropriation bill We're nonConcurred
| in and conference ordered. MI. Weaver
| (Neb) called up the vetoed pension bill OF
| Simmons w. Hart The house refused to
| pass the bill over the veto-l42 to 9S. The
house went into committee of the whole on
the senate amendments to the sundry civil
| BILL and 1O6 of the 26O pages OF the bill
were disposed Of An evening session was
held for the consld Grafton of pension bills
| SENATE.
| W ARLINGTON, Feb 19.-The president sem
two messages to the senate to-day, vetoIng
two acts granting pensions to Charlotte
! O'Neal and John Beed. One proposed tt
grant a pension to the widow of Richard
| O'Neal late colonel of the Twenty-siXbh In
diana volunteers ms Is vetoed because
| O'Neal after his resignation, died of 6
| disease not at all related to his military
| service and because the name is given In
| correctly in the bill In the case OF JohI
Reed. the president states that Reed applied
| for a pension on the ground that he wa
|
John, who died in the service. The deat
soldiers mother had been granted a pension
| on the statement that she was widow TIL,
| pension office refused Reeds application be
| cause he had abandoned his family in 1859
| The president concludes:
| This case demonstrates the means employed
| in attempts to cheat the government in applica
| tiens for pensions, too often successful Tht
| allegation Of 1877 Of the man who now passe:
| as the aged and dependent father of a dead sol
| dier, the mother died in 1872, when at thai
| time her claim was pending for pension largely
| based upon his abandonment: the affidavit O.
| the man who testified that he saw her die II
| 1872; the etfrontery Of this unworthy fathe
renewing his claim al after .o the detection
| the mother, and the allegation of the mothe
| that she was widow, when in fact she was al
abandoned wife, snow the processes which ente
with which plans are sometimes con cocted t.
rob the Cover nment by actually traifcking ii
death, and imposing on the sacred sentiment o
patrio ism and national gratitude.
| PERFORMED IN THE HOUSE.
| Mr. Cobb, from the conference committee
on the bill repeating the pre- emption, tim
Der culture and desert land acts, reported 6
continued disagreement. After few re-
marks by Mr.. Cobb in explanation OF the
disagreement, in the course OF which ht
said that he was authorized to state tina
the secretary of the interior to day stool
side by side and shoulder to shoulder will
Gen. Sparks in his administration O.
the land office. the further consideration
Of the report was postponed for the present
The house went into committee OF the whole
for the further consideration of the senaU,
amendments to the sundry civil appropria-
ton bull The senate amendment was con
CURED in approprlating $50. 600 for the
education of children in Alaska. notwitn
standing the recommendation of the com
mittee on appropriations TO the contrary.